My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.

It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

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